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Each week we welcome new Faculty of 1000 Members. Here are the latest additions.

Biological crowding agents can destabilize proteins.

Daniel Mullendore is a student of plant biology at Washington State University. While flowering plants are undoubtedly macroscopically pretty, Daniel likes to look beyond the foliage and the flowers to the beauty that most people never, ever see. Fortunately, he shares this wonder and beauty with us through his micrographs of plant tissue, dyed to…

Given a difficult or dangerous task, or one in an environment not easily accessible to humans, we can usually find a robot or machine to do the job instead. Robotic surgery and space and underwater research are all examples of this. Likewise, if we lose a limb it can be replaced with a high tech…

Ferdinando Boero is a F1000 Member in Ecology. Here, he presents his impressions from a large biodiversity meeting in Aberdeen.

Heather Etchevers, INSERM, reviews the third edition of Forensic Science by Andrew R. W. Jackson and Julie M. Jackson. Publisher: Pearson Education Limited Prentice-Hall.

After the excitement of the Nobels last week, we’d also like to extend our warmest congratulations to F1000 Members Carlos Bustamante (Genomics & Genetics) and Tamar Schlick (Structural Biology), who last week were appointed 2012 Fellows of the Biophysical Society. Fellowships are awarded based on the Fellows’ “demonstrated excellence in science, contributions to the expansion…

Each week we welcome new Members to Faculty of 1000. Here are the latest additions.

Among scientists who have experimented on themselves, Barry Marshall’s story is, literally, stomach-turning. His Nobel-winning paper is evaluated on F1000.

We launched the F1000 Journal Rankings on Monday. We’ve taken the ratings given to articles by F1000 Faculty Members, and cooked up a way of ranking journals using those scores. This is a new venture for us, one that is both exciting and slightly terrifying. (Updated: Read Declan Butler’s piece in Nature, here.) First, why…